Acrotaphus

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Acrotaphus
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Acrotaphus wiltii female
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Tribe: Ephialtini
Genus: Acrotaphus
Townes & Townes, 1960

Acrotaphus is a genus of ichneumon wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. There are about 26 described species in Acrotaphus. [1] [2] [3] [4] They are parasitoids of Araneidae and Tetragnathidae spider families. [5]

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Species

These 26 species belong to the genus Acrotaphus:

Data sources: i = ITIS, [8] c = Catalogue of Life, [1] g = GBIF, [2] b = Bugguide.net [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Browse Acrotaphus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  2. 1 2 "Acrotaphus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  3. 1 2 "Acrotaphus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  4. Carlson, Robert W. "Superfamily Ichneumonoidea, Discover Life" . Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  5. Gauld, Ian D.; Dubois, Jacques (2006-03-29). "Phylogeny of the Polysphincta group of genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Pimplinae): a taxonomic revision of spider ectoparasitoids". Systematic Entomology. Wiley. 31 (3): 529–564. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00334.x. ISSN   0307-6970.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Diego G. Pádua; Ilari E. Sääksjärvi; Ricardo F. Monteiro; Marcio L. Oliveira (January 19, 2020). "Review of the New World genus Acrotaphus Townes, 1960 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae), with descriptions of fifteen new species". Zootaxa. 4719 (1): zootaxa.4719.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4719.1.1. PMID   32230647. S2CID   212927763.
  7. P. T. Higa; A. M. Penteado-Dias (May 20, 2019). "Altitudinal effects on diversity of Pimplinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Southeast Brazil and description of new species". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 80 (2): Article. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.210438 . PMID   31116298.
  8. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System" . Retrieved 2018-05-08.

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